A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CANAPES

Lot 32
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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£ 302 400
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Lot 32 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CANAPES
Valeur estimée
£ 80 000 – 120 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CANAPES

BY NICOLAS-DENIS DELAISEMENT, CIRCA 1780

Each with padded seat and back upholstered à chassis in later crimson velvet, the frame carved with ribbon cresting and guilloche motif, the part-padded arms headed by acanthus leaves and terminating in a Greek-key and stop-fluted base, on spirally-reeded foliate-carved tapering legs headed by rosettes, both with the label 'Earl of Rosebery'



42 in. (107 cm.) high; 45 1/2 in. (115.5 cm.) wide; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

Archibald Primrose (1847-1929), 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, Lord Dalmeny, and Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery (née de Rothschild;1851-1890) daughter of Baron Mayer de Rothschild, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, England, thence by descent,

Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose (1882-1974), 6th Earl of Rosebery, 2nd Earl of Midlothian, and Lord Dalmeny, and by descent until sold

Mentmore Towers; Sotheby's house sale, 18 May 1977, lot 12.

Anonymous sale; Doyle, New York, 31 January 2018, lot 417.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

P. Kjellberg, Le mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle, Dictionnaire des ébénistes et des menuisiers, Paris, 1998, p. 228.



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